Device for manipulating ingots, billets, &amp;c.



.1. J. McNElLL." I

DEVICE FOR MANIPULATING INGOTS, BILLETS, 8w.

Patented Dec. l9, I899.

[Application filed Feb. 10, 1899.)

No Model.)

IQWLJS Q0%@MM AM A TTOBNE Y5 UNTTnn STATES JOSEPH J. MONEILL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DEVICE FOR MANIPULATING INGOTS, BILLETS, 61.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 639,270, dated December 19, 1899.

Application filed February 10, 1899. Serial No. 705,188. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH J. MoNEILL, a resident of Cleveland, county of Ouyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Manipulating Ingots, Billets, and other Metallic Forms; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for holding ingots, fagots, billets, and the like during the process of forging into a predetermined shape or during other opera.- tions upon the same.

The object of this invention is to render the manipulation of work of the characterindicated more convenientand easier andlessen, and consequently red uce, the cost of the labor and time required to manipulate and perform the operations upon'the work.

ith this object in View the invention 0011- sists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of a device embodying my invention. Fig. II is a side elevation in central longitudinal section. Fig. III is a transverse section online III III, Fig. I, lookingin the direction of the work-grasping end of the device. Fig. IV is a forward end elevation.

In Figs. I and II the two work-holding jaws of the device are shown closed together. In Fig. IV the said jaws are shown separated the maximum distance. The work w is shown in position in Figs. I and II.

My improved device comprises two jaws a and b, that correspond generally in shape or contour and are shaped as required to embrace or engage opposite sides, respectively, of the work. The jaws are preferably shaped internally as required to render them capable of grasping or receiving work that is quadrangular in cross-section, and consequently in the case illustrated each jaw is provided with a chamber 0, that is V-shaped in end elevation, open at the jaws inner side, and registers with the chamber 0, formed within the companion jaw. The jaws are socured in their operative position in any approved manner, and preferably by two clamps arranged at opposite ends, respectively, of the assembled work-holding jaws. Each clamp comprises, preferably, two jaws d and e, arranged the one (1 at the outer side of one of the jaws and the other, e, at the outer side of the companion jaw, and both of the clamping-jaws of each clamp are secured in their operative position by two bolts gandl nuts g, mounted upon the correspondingly-threaded shanks of the bolts. The bolts g extend through the clamping-jaws at opposite sides, respectively, of the clamp and have their heads bearing against the outer side of one of the clamping-jaws, and the bolt-engaging nuts g are arranged to bear against the outer side of the companion clamping-jaw. One of the work-holding jaws is adjustable toward and from the companion jaw, and the said adjustable jaw is shiftable endwise and removable from the companionjaw. The work* holding jaws correspond in length, and the arrangement of parts is such, preferably, that in the assembled and operative position of the said jaws the adjustable jaw has its rear end abutting the stop a and has its forward or outer end flush with the corresponding end of the companion jaw.

The tool-shank is not only for the purpose of accommodating the provision of handles 71, from which the tool is manipulated and which are preferably adjustable endwise of the shank, as shown; but the shank is primarily for the purpose of forming a counterbalance for the work, and thereby facilitating the manipulation of the work.

The tool is supported, preferably, from a chain is, depending from a crane overhead, which chain may be applied between the two clamps upon the jaws, as shown, or at or near the'inner end of the shank. The chain, it will be observed, forms a fulcrum for the tool, and upon this fulcrum the tool can be turned and tilted or swung in any direction, and it is ob vious that the chain or fulcrum is adjustable, therefore, longitudinally of the tool, as required, to cause the work preparatory to the tools operation to be properly counterbalanced. In the case illustrated jaw h is the adjustable jaw, and its adjustability accommodates the use of the tool for different sizes of work. The lateral ad justability of jaw 72 of the adjustable jaw extends rearwardly from the said jaw a suitable distance, and the said rearwardly-extending cylindrical portion of the trunnion engages a bore a formed in and centrally of the inner and diametrically-enlarged end of the shank a of the tool. The said bore a is elongated in the direction required to accommodate the adjustability of the trunnion-bearing jaw toward and from the companion jaw, and the recess a forms a forward extension of the said bore.

It will be observed that the inner and enlarged end of the tools shank overlaps, as at (6 the rear end of the adjustable jawand has the arrangement required to form an abutment or stop for the said adjustable jaw and prevent rearward displacement. of the said jaw.

' My device is especially well adapted for holding the work during the forging of iron shafting and other shapes from loosely-assembled iron bars or billets and for holding a steel ingot during any operation performed upon the ingot and is capable of holding work of any cross-sectional formsquare, round, or ovular-and the construction illustrated, wherein the adjustable work-holding jaw is trunnioned within the shank, accommodates a limited tilting of the said jaw laterally, and thereby facilitates the said jaw in conforming to the work, and thereby more effectually rendering the said jaw capable of grasping work of any cross-sectional form. It will be observed also that the adjustable jaw, when the clamps are loosened and no work is being held, is'shiftable endwise of and separable from the relatively stationary jaw to accommodate access to the bore a for cleaning the latter.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A tool of the character indicated, C0111- prising two work-holding jaws arranged opposite each other, one of the jaws adjustable toward and from the companion jaw and pro-' vided, at its rear end and inner side, with a trunnion or member projecting rearwardly and arranged longitudinally of the jaw, a reaiwvardly-extending counterbalance forming' member formed upon the rear end of the nonadjustable jaw and having a bore engaged by the aforesaid rear wardly-projecting member of the adjustable jaw, which bore is elongated in the direction required to accommodate the adjustability of the last-mentioned jaw, and means for securing the jaws in their operative position.

2. A tool of the character indicated, comprising two work-holding jaws arranged opposite to each other, and having one of said jaws adjustable toward and from the companion jaw, means for securing the jaws in their operative position, a journal or trunnion formed upon the adjustable jaw at the rear end and inner side of the said jaw, which trunnion extends rearwardly of the jaw and has its lower half or portion elongated forwardly over the inner end wall of the adjustable jaw, a handle-bearing and work-counterbalancing shank formed upon the rearend of the non-adjustable jaw and provided, in its inner end, with a bore arranged to receive the outer or free end of the aforesaid trunnion and elongated, as required, to accommodate the adjustability of the adjustable jaw, which bore is extended forwardly into the inner end wall of the non-adjustable jaw.

Signed by me at Cleveland, Ohio, this 1st day of February, 1899.

JOSEPH J. MONEILL.

Witnesses:

O. H. Donna, A. II. PARRATT. 

